Doriko Wani, 22, is a Congolese refugee from Soba village in Ituri province. “We left because of the war. I do not want to go back in DRC and here with my husband and one child. We won’t go back there until is safe.”

@ UNHCR/Michele Sibiloni

UNHCR warns that even more lives could be lost on the often perilous lake routes, as increasing numbers of refugees escape inter-communal conflict across eastern DRC.